The Master of Science in Nursing courses are delivered online with the exception of two residency requirements for orientation to the program (1.5 days), as well as during NURS 503 Conflict course (3 days).
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- Students must be accepted to both the MSN and MBA programs.
- MSN requirement: a 3.0 GPA in undergraduate nursing courses plus 2 acceptable references
- MBA requirement: students have at least two years working experience and achieved satisfactory performance on the Graduate Management Admissions Test (GMAT)
- Students without a background in business may take a prerequisite course (all offered by EMU) including coursework in accounting, finance, and economics.
Course Requirements
Semester Hours: Total of 56 SH (reduction of 17 SH in the dual degree)
Shared Courses Between the MBA Health Care Track and the MSN (9 SH)
- NURS 515 Health Care Delivery System (3 SH)
- NURS 516 Application of Legal & Ethical Principles to Health Care (3 SH)
- NURS 626 Managing in a Complex Environment (3 SH)
MSN Requirements (23 SH)
- NURS 501 Introduction, Sacred Covenant Conceptual Framework (1 SH)
- NURS 503 Practice Skills for Conflict Transformation (3 SH)
- NURS 510 Historical, Philosophical and Theoretical Foundations of Nursing (3 SH)
- NURS 511 Translational Scholarship for Evidence-Based Practice (3 SH)
- NURS 512 Knowledge Development: Epidemiology and Infomatics (3 SH)
- NURS 620 Safety, Risk Reduction, and Quality Care (4 SH)
- NURS 629 Instructional Methodologies Nurse Leaders (2 SH)
- NURS 630 Leadership Project (4 SH) (with the addition of an MBA faculty advising the project to ensure the presence of sustainability content)
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